Lol. Ok. That was funny Smash. However, that kind of circumspect logic really fits you more then me. Just happens to go the other way politically in this case...
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Sure. If he actually did.
He did. He admitted to it.
Um. No. He didn't. He said that "they" went to some avant-gard clubs, the "they" weren't comfortable with them.
He did not say: "Yeah. I took here to some sex clubs and tried to talk here into having sex with other people".
He also didn't say: "Yeah. I tricked her into going to a sex club, when I knew she didn't want to, and I kept pressuring her into getting funky at the club until I made her cry".
Odd. Those are the allegations *she* made (actually, her attorney made). Those are the allegations that the Trib published. But that's not what he said, either in the divorce papers, or in response to the allegations once they became public.
It's not the going to the sex clubs that sunk him as a Republican candidate. It's the allegations that he forced/tricked her into going against her wishes that did. And those allegations are 100% one sided (as I guess all allegations are realy).
I'm not really arguing this specifically from the Ryan case perspective. More of a general critique of our culture and our silly fascination with digging into people's private lives and digging up dirt on them. And even worse, building up pure speculation and allegations into real damage to a persons career. It bothers me on many levels that we often put more weight into what someone is accused of, then what they've actually done.
Here's a simple test for you: What do you know about Hull's and Ryan's platforms right now, without looking anything up? Nothing? That's right. Because we are more obsessed with the allegations, then what these two men have done to deserve to be candidates. Admittedly, for those of us who don't live in Illonois, we don't care about the rest, but I'm betting people from that state probably don't know more then the allegations. And that's pretty freaking sad IMO.